Rising Seas and Solutions, Sigma Xi LecturePaul H. Carr
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The article “Treading Water” in the February 2015 National Geographic tells how Dutch Docklands LLC sees profit not loss from rising sea levels. They are building floating homes in Miami, FL. A floating classroom could assure Eckerd Colleges's long-term future. It would provide a place to meet in the event of flooding by the 10-foot ocean surges that accompany hurricanes.
Dr. Carr describes how increasing greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, trap the radiation that is warming our planet. Advances in non-carbon emitting energy sources can reduce global warming. Solar PV panels are now generating electricity at $0.07/kWhr, less than the national utility average of $0.12kWhr. Rising sea levels are a better measure of global warming than atmospheric temperature, as 90% of our planet’s heat content is in our oceans.
Rising Seas and Solutions, Sigma Xi LecturePaul H. Carr
Miami Beach becomes a flood zone during King High Tides. The melting of Greenland, mountain glaciers, and thermal expansion is raising sea levels four times faster than in 1900. Sea level rises of 2 to 6 feet are predicted by the end of the century. Flood highs from hurricanes Sandy and Katrina were ~ 10 feet.
The article “Treading Water” in the February 2015 National Geographic tells how Dutch Docklands LLC sees profit not loss from rising sea levels. They are building floating homes in Miami, FL. A floating classroom could assure Eckerd Colleges's long-term future. It would provide a place to meet in the event of flooding by the 10-foot ocean surges that accompany hurricanes.
Dr. Carr describes how increasing greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, trap the radiation that is warming our planet. Advances in non-carbon emitting energy sources can reduce global warming. Solar PV panels are now generating electricity at $0.07/kWhr, less than the national utility average of $0.12kWhr. Rising sea levels are a better measure of global warming than atmospheric temperature, as 90% of our planet’s heat content is in our oceans.
The presentation aims at explaining the phenomenon of climate change and global warming and the chemistry and physic behind. How is global warming affects the climate? what are the reasons of global warming? the presentation reveals the science behind.
Carbon, the way we view it, measure it, control it and price it has come to dominate debates of all kinds. So, what's it all about?
This is the starting point of a 'Carbon 101' guide released by The Climate Institute, alongside a podcast narration by Andrew Demetriou, CEO of the Australian Football League and Dr Graeme Pearman, former head of CSIRO Atmospheric Research. This presentation summarises the book and podcast. Both are available on The Climate Institute's website: www.climateinstitute.org.au/carbon-101.html
Nobel Laureate Mario Molina spoke about the impact of energy on climate change at the Joint Public Advisory Committee's public forum on Greening North America's Energy Economy in Calgary on 24 April 2013. More at: http://cec.org/jpacenergy
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This is the starting point of a 'Carbon 101' guide released by The Climate Institute, alongside a podcast narration by Andrew Demetriou, CEO of the Australian Football League and Dr Graeme Pearman, former head of CSIRO Atmospheric Research. This presentation summarises the book and podcast. Both are available on The Climate Institute's website: www.climateinstitute.org.au/carbon-101.html
Nobel Laureate Mario Molina spoke about the impact of energy on climate change at the Joint Public Advisory Committee's public forum on Greening North America's Energy Economy in Calgary on 24 April 2013. More at: http://cec.org/jpacenergy
What are we doing to our climate? What is it doing to us? What can we do?Paul H. Carr
OVERVIEW
I will be introducing you to ECONOMIC, ECOLOGICAL, and TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES.
¥ Climate change is an unintended consequence of carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.
¥ By pricing in the social and environmental cost of these emissions, we can expedite their reduction. Let’s harness profit greed towards green technology development.
¥ The environmental challenge is to balance the beauty and sacredness of nature with its utility.
ABSTRACT
What are we doing to our climate? The scientific consensus. Tides and temperatures are rising. Since the beginning of the industrial age, emissions from fossil fuel burning have raised carbon dioxide concentrations to 410 ppm. This is 33% higher than in the last million years. This increase is warming our planet via the Greenhouse Effect. At the present rate of carbon dioxide increase, we will reach 800 ppm by 2100. When our earth was at this concentration 40 million years ago, it was so warm that there was no ice. Sea levels were about 300 feet higher than today.
What is climate change doing to us? “The earth and its poor cry out, and we must listen” Pope Francis. Dry regions are drier and wet ones wetter. Wildfires have increased threefold since 1970, storms more violent, floods setting record heights, and glaciers melting. Natural catastrophes are occurring more than twice as frequently as in 1980. Sea levels could rise as high as 18 feet by 2060. Parts of Earth are increasingly uninhabitable, resulting in millions of climate change refugees, CLIMmigration.
What can we do? Religion and science matter. Ethics trumping economics. Let’s yoke our knowledge of climate science with the motivational power of spiritual values. We need to reduce our carbon footprints. We now have the option to purchase green electric cars getting the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon and solar PV panels to lower our electric bills. We can support the Citizen’s Climate Lobby which advocates a revenue neutral carbon production fee resulting in a dividend returned to all. This would stimulate our economy creating millions of jobs and increase the deployment of green solar, wind, and nuclear energy sources. Thorium, in addition to uranium, is a green energy source for the future. Republicans are less afraid of nuclear energy than Democrats.
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Sustainability has become an increasingly critical topic as the world recognizes the need to protect our planet and its resources for future generations. Sustainability means meeting our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. It involves long-term planning and consideration of the consequences of our actions. The goal is to create strategies that ensure the long-term viability of People, Planet, and Profit.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Develop a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental principles and concepts that form the foundation of sustainability within corporate environments.
2. Explore the sustainability implementation model, focusing on effective measures and reporting strategies to track and communicate sustainability efforts.
3. Identify and define best practices and critical success factors essential for achieving sustainability goals within organizations.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction and Key Concepts of Sustainability
2. Principles and Practices of Sustainability
3. Measures and Reporting in Sustainability
4. Sustainability Implementation & Best Practices
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2. Looking beyond the Carbon “Tax” - the emergency transition to global sustainability AMP Amplify Festival Sydney, 6 th June 2011 Ian T. Dunlop Director Australia 21 Member, Club of Rome Chairman, Safe Climate Australia Deputy Convenor, Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil
3. World Population - a unique point in history - Source: J.E.Cohen, Columbia University, New York, 2005 A Full World Where to ? BC AD 1945 – An Empty World ?
5. Everything Connects ---- ! - but we are not joining the dots Water Peak Oil Climate Change All Symptoms of an Unsustainable World - and all inextricably linked Food Financial Instability
8. Peak Oil - is fundamentally changing energy supply Production mb/d At the peak, production is limited by reservoir characteristics, not by price Peak 50% still to be produced
10. World Energy Outlook 2010 - acknowledging the Peak is near, or here! Source: World Energy Outlook 2010, International Energy Agency 4 Saudi Arabia’s are required by 2035 to just maintain current supply – highly unlikely!
12. This is a graphical interpretation by David Spratt, Melbourne Climate Action Centre, of aspects of recent paleoclimate research by Hansen et al, available in draft form at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1140 http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110118_MilankovicPaper.pdf http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110514_PaleoAndImbalance.pdf Version 1.3 of 3 June 2011 Eocene peak Planetary temperature over the last 65 million years… Lessons for today… and tomorrow.
13. Antarctic glaciation ~ 34 million years ago… Eocene peak Around 34 million years ago, glaciation of Antarctica as temperature drops from Eocene peak.
14. Around ~4.5 million years ago, northern hemisphere glaciation. Associated with the rise of the Panama Cordillera which isolates the Pacific from the Atlantic oceans and leads to intra-oceanic circulation (Gyres) which introduces warm currents and moisture to the North Atlantic – resulting in increased snow fall and formation of ice in Greenland, Laurentia and Fennoscandia. Northern hemisphere glaciation ~ 4.5 million years ago… Eocene peak
15. The last million years… Climate swings between ice ages and warm inter-glacial periods over last million years. CO2 between 180 and 300 parts per million . Carbon dioxide and methane over last 500,000 years
16. Peak Holocene: over last 10,000 years up 1900AD The last 10,000 years – the Holocene Peak Holocene temp. Holocene: after the last ice age, relatively stable temperatures (+/–0.5C) and sea-levels over last 10,000 years – the period of human civilisation
17. Peak Holocene: over last 10,000 years up 1900AD Global average temperature now ~0.6C above peak Holocene Today temperature rises above the Holocene maximum 2010 CO2 level today (2011) is 391ppm but “thermal inertia” (delay as ocean mass warm) means temperature will increase further. Temperatures have risen ~0.83C since 1900 and are now ~0.6C over peak Holocene.
18. Peak Holocene: over last 10,000 years up 1900AD Global average temperature now ~0.6C above peak Holocene 2C of warming: consequence of current level of greenhouse gases 2 degrees – goodbye to Greenland ice sheet… +2C When climate system reaches equilibrium, present level of CO2 will produce >2C of warming with feedbacks…
19. Peak Holocene: over last 10,000 years up 1900AD Global average temperature now ~0.6C above peak Holocene 2C of warming: consequence of current level of greenhouse gases +2C … which is sufficient for large parts of Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets to be lost, leading to at least a 6-7 metre sea-level rise over time “ Goals to limit human-made warming to 2°C.. are not sufficient – they are prescriptions for disaster” — Dr James Hansen
20. Peak Holocene: over last 10,000 years up 1900AD Global average temperature now ~0.6C above peak Holocene 2C of warming: consequence of current level of greenhouse gases 4C of warming 4 degrees – goodbye, goodbye … Best present emission reduction commitments by all governments (if implemented) will still lead to 4 degrees of warming by 2100… +4C
21. Peak Holocene: over last 10,000 years up 1900AD Global average temperature now ~0.6C above peak Holocene 2C of warming: consequence of current level of greenhouse gases 4C of warming +4C … and likely loss overtime of all ice sheets. No ice sheets on planet = 70 metre sea-level rise over time… … amongst many devastating impacts. Read more about 4 degrees hotter at http://www.climateactioncentre.org/resources
25. Australia – World Emissions Leader Individual Carbon Emissions 2005 Source: World Development Report 2010, World Bank
26. Climate & Energy are Inextricably Linked - global carbon budget to avoid dangerous climate change So why are we continuing to explore for fossil fuels? Source: Meinhausen et al, Greenhouse-gas emission targets, Nature, April 2009 75% chance of staying below 2 0 C 50% chance of staying below 2 0 C From 2010 onwards, we can only afford to burn 40 – 30% respectively of existing fossil fuel reserves to have:
27. The Way Forward Our Great Opportunity - for our current way-of-life is unsustainable -
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32. Solutions - Risk & Resilience “ It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on him not understanding it” Upton Sinclair Growth Systemic Breakdown Re-organisation Re-birth Over-extended Growth Catastrophic Breakdown Collapse Source: Resilience Alliance, Thomas Homer-Dixon
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34. This is triggering the greatest innovation wave in history - but technology alone is not sufficient ! Source: The Natural Edge Project
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37. Two Questions [email_address] “ Australia’s advantages as a low-cost supplier of energy and raw materials are likely to be even greater after a successful transition to a low-carbon economy than they are in a world in which fossil fuels dominate energy supply”. Ross Garnaut Garnaut Climate Change Review May 2011 Thank you “ In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, whilst the rest find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world which no longer exists” Eric Hoffman Will we learn in time ? Will we seize the opportunity ?
Editor's Notes
Sydney Lyceum Club, 10th February 2011 Ian T Dunlop Climate Change & Energy Security - the case for emergency action
Club of Rome - Keynote Address Amsterdam, 27th October, 2009 [email_address]
Club of Rome - Keynote Address Amsterdam, 27th October, 2009 [email_address]
Sydney Lyceum Club, 10th February 2011 NSW Parliament House, Sydney Climate Change & Energy Security - the case for emergency action
Climate Change & Energy Security - the case for emergency action Sydney Lyceum Club, 10th February 2011 Ian T Dunlop
Climate Change & Energy Security - the case for emergency action Sydney Lyceum Club, 10th February 2011 Ian T Dunlop
Climate Change & Energy Security - the case for emergency action Sydney Lyceum Club, 10th February 2011 Ian T Dunlop
As the planet cooled from the PETM, galciation commenced on Antartica around 34 million years ago. The ice mass significant decreased in a subsequent warm period between 27 and 12 million years ago, before as temperatures cooled again.
Climate Change & Energy Security - the case for emergency action December 2010 Ian T Dunlop
Climate Change & Energy Security - the case for emergency action Sydney Lyceum Club, 10th February 2011 Ian T Dunlop
Climate Change & Energy Security - the case for emergency action December 2010 Ian T Dunlop